Screening:
My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Salt Beyoğlu
July 26, 2025 18.00
![Imgi 17 Martin Dohrn Filming A Bumble Bee Hovering Over A Dandelion Credit Martin Dohrn Passion Planet <i>My Garden of a Thousand Bees</i> [Bin Arılı Bahçem] (2021) filminden bir kare
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Still from My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021)
©Martin Dohrn, Passion Planet
©Martin Dohrn, Passion Planet
Walk-in Cinema
My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021)
Director: David Allen
53 minutes
English; Turkish subtitles
Filmed during the COVID-19 lockdown, My Garden of a Thousand Bees follows wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he turns his small urban garden in Bristol into a field laboratory. With lenses he crafted at home, Dohrn sets out to document the diverse bee species living just outside his door. Over months of filming, he records more than 60 species—from large bumblebees to bees smaller than a mosquito—revealing their unique behaviors and social structures.
The film portrays bees not as a single group but as individuals, each with distinct traits and routines. Through attentive observation, it captures rare and intimate scenes: bees laying eggs, fighting over mates, defending nests, and building shelters from shells and sticks. Offering a close look at a hidden world, the film invites viewers to reconsider how life unfolds just beyond the edges of our attention.
Free-admission screening is open to everyone.
My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021)
Director: David Allen
53 minutes
English; Turkish subtitles
Filmed during the COVID-19 lockdown, My Garden of a Thousand Bees follows wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he turns his small urban garden in Bristol into a field laboratory. With lenses he crafted at home, Dohrn sets out to document the diverse bee species living just outside his door. Over months of filming, he records more than 60 species—from large bumblebees to bees smaller than a mosquito—revealing their unique behaviors and social structures.
The film portrays bees not as a single group but as individuals, each with distinct traits and routines. Through attentive observation, it captures rare and intimate scenes: bees laying eggs, fighting over mates, defending nests, and building shelters from shells and sticks. Offering a close look at a hidden world, the film invites viewers to reconsider how life unfolds just beyond the edges of our attention.
Free-admission screening is open to everyone.
